2011 Accountability Phishing Social Engineering 
eSecurity Planet
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
To this end, some impressive technology has been created to combat the technological side of the issue, to keep hackers and similar bad actors from accessing data and account privileges they shouldn’t. Phishing complaints were reported over 300,000 times in 2021 to IC3, the only Internet crime to crack 100,000+ complaints.
Malwarebytes
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
That leaves 78 percent that only require usernames and passwords to authenticate account users. billion account hijacking attempts using brute-forced stolen passwords. Google introduced 2FA to Gmail in 2011. Milka revealed that, at the time of his talk, less than 10 percent of Google accounts used 2FA.
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Security Affairs
OCTOBER 13, 2019
Iran-linked APT group Charming Kitten employed new spear-phishing methods in attacks carried out between August and September. Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) observed the APT group making more than 2,700 attempts to identify consumer email accounts belonging to specific Microsoft customers and then attack 241 of those accounts.
SecureList
MARCH 1, 2021
In their campaigns to infect mobile devices, cybercriminals always resort to social engineering tools, the most common of these passing a malicious application off as another, popular and desirable one. For example, an attacker could log in to a victim’s Facebook account and post a phishing link or spread spam.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
MAY 9, 2022
The first attempt was to leverage knowledge questions to complement insecure passwords, only to find out soon enough that people were using information that was easy to be compromised by simple social engineering tactics. SIM swapping attacks were the key reason that back in 2011, NIST deprecated SMS-based OTP authentication.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
APT42’s TTPs overlap with another Iran-linked APT group tracked as APT35 (aka ‘ Charming Kitten ‘, ‘ Phosphorus ‘, Newscaster , and Ajax Security Team) which made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the most elaborate net-based spying campaign organized by Iranian hackers using social media.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
APRIL 7, 2022
The reputation is well-deserved when you consider that we (the cybersecurity team) tell users to create a unique password for each account to increase security. In 2011, Forrester estimated that each call to the help desk for a password reset costs $70.
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